Sunday in Seville

Sunday, May 28, 2017--Seville

Today is our last day in Seville.  We started it by walking across town.  On the way, we passed a couple of popular sights--the Aire Arabic Baths and the Flamenco Museum.  I've had such baths in Turkey before, and I have seen lots of Flamenco and had no interest in the museum.  So we only glanced inside and continued to our destination of the Metropol Parasol.  It was constructed in 2011 on a space that once housed a food market and has greatly revived the neighbhorhood.  It is a wooden structure raised above ground in a wavy fashion that gives the impression of a cluster of large trees covering the area.  Inside a building below it is still a smaller food market and some restaurants.  However, it is mainly fun just to see it and watch others seeing it.

From there, we returned to a small local square we found that was filled with neighbors sitting at cafes and shopping.  We sat to watch the people and ate a pastry we bought from one of the bakeries there--a long (about 12 inches or 30 cm) pastry made from croissant dough, filled with chocolate, squiggled with white frosting on top, with a small dollop of chocolate sprinkles in the middle of the top.

We went back to the center of town and sat at the cathedral to watch people and hear a lady playing an accordion and singing.  Then we moved on to a plaza where two women were dancing flamenco.  From there, we continued toward the big park of Maria Luisa which we have visited every day (due to being across the street from our hotel).  On the way to the park, we passed the casino building which was built for the 1922 fair and is beautiful but now known as the Lopa de Vega Theatre and apparantly mostly unused today (with lots of leaves around the outside and no furniture in the lobby.  In the park, we walked the terraces and the front of the Plaza de Espana Building for a close-up look.  Finally, we returned to the room to rest for a while.

We went back out again for part of the evening just to walk and to watch people.  We have both felt tired all day, probably because we stayed up late last night with both of us having computer problems.  We have those resolved, so we will go to bed early tonight.  Tomorrow is a day to travel to another city.